We are iqwat !
TOGETHER... BEING TOGETHER... FEELING OF TOGETHERNESS
Founding Members
Ajay Kaul
Ajay has close to 3 decades of experience in business, more than half of which has been as CEO of reputed companies. Ajay is a B.Tech from IIT Delhi & MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur. He has worked with brands like American express, Lufthansa, TNT Express, Jubilant FoodWorks (Domino’s Pizza & Dunkin’ Donuts). Ajay was the CEO of Domino’s Pizza in India for 12 years. Under his leadership, Dominos in India not only became the largest Pizza market in the world, but also one of the most respected food service brand stories in Asia. Ajay is now active in the private equity space, investing in and advising upcoming brands. He is also an angel investor as a part of the INDIAN ANGEL NETWORK. Ajay is a high energy and enthusiastic business leader and intends to bring the same enthusiasm to this venture.
Mukesh is a business technologist with almost 20 years of Product Development & Technology experience. After graduating from BITS Pilani, Mukesh started off his career in business development before heading off to the US to do MS in Computer Science. Post Masters he joined GAIN Capital, an FX trading startup and played a key role in building it through to IPO to becoming no. 1 FX firm in USA. Subsequently he moved to London as CTO at GAIN Capital and successfully led and executed an incredibly challenging merger of 3 companies. After spending 19 years abroad, living in US and London, Mukesh moved back to India and Co-Founded Sofyx. His can-do attitude and unparalleled passion to drive results is contagious.
After graduating from BITS Pilani, Sanjay pursued MBA from Victoria, Canada. He spent a decade in Canada in multiple executive roles in clean tech industry. Sanjay is a dreamer and a visionary who likes to imagine possibilities. Before founding Sofyx, Sanjay built BlackBerry and Apple business in India and was responsible for leading the game changing innovations in mobility industry.
Our Team
Vishali Raina
Ritika Shah
Samiksha Thusoo
Post graduating from BITS, Pilani Vishali has worked in various roles in the banking and investment sector that included that of technologist, business analyst, market strategist, data analyst and product analyst to name a few. In her 18 years of experience she has worked with TCS, Standard Chartered, Citi, UBS, BNY and SIG in Singapore and US. Vishali thrives in high pressure, fast paced environment and brings to table the positive energy and a happy go lucky attitude that is backed by grit and immense perseverance. Travelling and reading are her favourite pastimes.
With a knack for detail and a penchant for creativity, Ritika brings her artistic fervor to the company. She has over 5 years of experience handling teams and independent projects involving content creation for marketing collateral ranging from digital marketing media to outdoor branding.Her experience working in radically diverse environments – startups, production houses, multinational companies, has lead to her having a very adaptive mindset which she makes the best use of to crack any design challenge thrown at her.
From being the student of the year and a star basketball player in school to among the college toppers, Samiksha has always been an all-rounder. She took a big leap in her career joining the industry right after her graduation in journalism and mass communication. She is the company’s lead anchor and works with the content from its research, scripting to finally presenting it with eloquence. She speaks through her expressions both on and off camera.
